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An older method was to boot an original legitimate disc with the lid close sense button held down, quickly swap the disc with a CD-R copy or foreign disc, remove that disc and reinsert the original, and then swap for the CD-R or foreign disc again. This had to be carefully timed, and if done incorrectly could damage the drive or disc(s).
The worm was first detected in June 2000, and mainly spread in the form of an email titled "Pikachu Pokemon" . The body of the email contained an attached executable file, " PikachuPokemon.exe ", which installed a worm that attempted to delete two critical directories of the user's Microsoft Windows operating system .